Product Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Tech Trekker

Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Supplement

Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Integration; Health; Health Industry

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01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open Knowledge—a public blogging... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2000
News

Short Takes

of organizations were very productively linked and in which significant value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE research forum at the School spurred Austin to delve more deeply... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

India’s renewable energy policies, such as Production Linked Incentives (PLI), aim to build domestic capacity and reduce reliance on imports. Tata Solar is well-positioned to benefit from these incentives while contributing to India’s... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

don't survive clinical trials, resulting in the pharmaceutical industry footing enormous bills for failure. Genomics will be a productivity driver, pushing perhaps a 100 percent increase in drug development, said Alan Crane, Senior Vice... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

products were designed to work with IBM systems and with those of other high-end systems suppliers, as well as those of Xerox. This compatibility with such systems was inconsistent with Xerox's preferred strategy to View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

Arjun Chopra

computing company, where he launched and led their cloud strategy, products and services. He was a member of the board and executive team that raised multiple rounds of financing and spun out smartShift Inc. He led 350+ people, on-boarded... View Details

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

creation of new products for the welfare of American soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, he fostered the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Financial Services

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

opportunities to use new technologies for enhancing financial inclusion. By working with communities of crypto business practitioners, the researchers aim to help shape the way this industry evolves, inform regulators, and improve the efficiency of these financial... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

30 Jun 2016
Blog Post

4 Ways I've Changed at HBS

fosters an environment conducive to helping you take risks and failing in a productive fashion. I discovered it really is ok to fail. A fear of failure often means we avoid taking risks, learning new things, or trying something that feels... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

was very thoughtful about these questions, and described his concerns about the next 10 to 20 years if we don’t manage the workforce transformation in a productive way,” says Kerr. “I don’t see technology as vastly reducing the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

37 states participate in the development and production program. The empty weight of the aircraft is 31,670 pounds and the wing area is 840 square feet. The aircraft has two engines generating 35,000 pounds... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

“Multinationals understand that there is significant growth potential for their products in developing markets.” Full Circle Growing up in South Africa, Roshini Moodley Naidoo (MBA ’07) witnessed the... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

The Container Store

By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia

The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Conscious Capitalism; Merchandising; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Service Delivery; Going Public; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry; United States